Words starting with WHI

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are WHI — 290 of 172,823.

Words
290
Everyday
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Longest
153 words tie
Shortest
48 words tie

What is in this list

3 words tie at 15 letters: whimsicalnesses, whippersnappers and whistleblowings.

They run from 4 to 15 letters; 68 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

79 of them — 27% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of H, I and W.

The one furthest down the tiers is whistleblowings, filed in the unranked list.

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Other openings of 3 letters

Elsewhere

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.